Law practice is increasingly specialized, and Vanderbilt offers several well-established upper-level tracks that allow students to gain in-depth exposure to fast-evolving technical and complex areas of law.

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Vanderbilt’s Career Services program provides students with the resources and support they need to assess their strengths, explore career options, refine their career goals and launch successful legal careers.

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Most students find it important to balance the demands of legal studies by joining one or more organizations for professional advancement, personal development, community service and professional networking.

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Engage collaboratively.

Drawn from across the nation and abroad, VLS students have remarkably varied backgrounds, experiences and professional goals, yet they have something important in common: they chose Vanderbilt for its longstanding reputation for collegiality and relationship building because they recognize that mutual support, teamwork and respect for others are essential to professional success.

Vanderbilt Law professors ranked 9th in a study of scholarly impact of American law school faculties in 2015, and with about 170 students in each entering J.D. class, our smaller size allows exceptional access to an elite faculty in an unusually collegial and collaborative school culture.

I would stack our professors up against any law faculty in the country. Vanderbilt faculty are brilliant producers of scholarship, but they also do an amazing job of complementing their research with excellence in the classroom. They’re effective communicators who are engaged with the material.